“‘Anything we can actually do, we can afford.’ Taxation controls the distribution of wealth. At bottom, however, state spending never rests on private profit. This means that an impoverished public good such as the present higher-education system reflects an impoverished public imagination.”

Durbin to Bondi: "Although you've been a registered foreign agent for Qatar, you didn't recuse yourself from signing off on Trump's solicitation of a free jet from the royal family, even though this gift was clearly illegal. Connections to Bondi seem to yield more favorable outcomes for defendants."

On the plus side, NPR helps me keep my road rage safely contained within my own vehicle because I’m too busy yelling at the radio to worry about idiots cutting me off or running stop signs.

"Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow. They need to stop being lawyerly and timid."

This reply is not about insurance or the shutdown and I endorse everything that you are saying, but there is something going on with ERs and how they relate to healthcare overall that doesn’t seem to ever get much attention (and maybe I’m looking in the wrong places), but /1

Breaking: Recent DNA test confirms Trump is not actually human. Legal scholars assert humanity is not specified in the Constitution as a requirement for office.

Humans qualify for human rights! Healthcare is a human right.

The wheels on the bus go spinning away, spinning away, spinning away. The wheels on the bus go spinning away, ear-lie in the morning.

Did Mel Brooks write this? I guess “Way to go Mel” is in order. Still, Jesus!

So exhausting..

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

The Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg should press charges. This is assault and there was no lawful purpose for this whatsoever. Federal immunity shouldn't apply.

Why aren’t independent journalists going flat out to organize themselves into a force to be reckoned with?

It would have been less embarrassing if Trump had dropped trow and mooned the General Assembly.

Washington doesn't want you to know this… But there’s ONE WEIRD TRICK that ends inflation and recession risks. And I can share it with you TODAY if you act quickly.

📌I'm sorry but it is patently stupid, insane, and insulting that Chuck Schumer is STILL the face of the Democratic "leadership" in the U.S. Senate. 📌I can think of 40 other Senators who could do a FAR better job of putting our case to the American public. 📌This shit makes me furious.

“The most talented journalists in the country are between jobs, the most creative campaigns run on fumes, and state and city governments are left to administer austerity with nothing but temporary patches.”

A short thread on Charlie Kirk and free speech. Shakespeare wrote the that the evil men do lives on after them, but the good is oft interred with their bones, and this seems likely to be true of Charlie Kirk. As a public figure, he was both a man and cipher, a symbol onto which many things /1

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, This was not a one off - it is eternally true

No matter where you live, you can help by making phone calls to voters to help. Republican cheaters are stealing Congressional seats in Texas & other states with unprecedented election rigging. California voters should pass this temporary measure to save democracy. Vote/Volunteer for #YESONPROP50

I agree with both the realists/ cynics and the optimists as well. I don’t have much faith that this situation can be turned around at the federal level ever. Whatever it would take to fix our politics, our courts, our press is beyond my imagining. /1

Right after the election I suggested to my wife (not wanting to out myself in public as an extreme crank) that Biden should pile all of out military equipment into two piles. One pile should be sent to Canada and the other to Mexico. That gear is too dangerous to leave in the hands of a lunatic.

Meanwhile back at the BLS: youtu.be/wsGnYuQwsOI?...

I can’t ever think of that time without remembering this speech as well. youtu.be/eXA6BqF2XfA?...

They say that hope springs eternal in the heart of the feeble minded. I’m willing to live within those constraints. I’ll keep my bottle of champagne on ice. I’ll smile every time someone asks if he’s dead yet. Without reservation, I look forward to the sound of the cork coming out of the bottle.

Someone needs to seriously ask Roberts to defend the proposition that the founders were deeply concerned about the country not being exposed to enough of the kind of shit that Trump has been pulling. Ask him to square that with Lincoln’s 1838 speech at the Lyceum.

surely we can come up with something better for 7 billion people than being lorded over by a bunch of plundering elderly murder and torture enthusiasts who whisper to each other about printing spare organs so they can immiserate others in perpetuity

One if by land and two if by sea. On the opposite shore, JB Pritzker will be.

I really hate this but from a certain point of view we’re already in one. When Trump defies the Constitution, he literally breaks the law into pieces. Then it’s not a matter of THE law, but which law or whose? In DC Pirro elects to not enforce weapons laws. Who is the outlaw?/1

100 percent

If Dems are looking for a template for success, here it is. Speak plainly with conviction. Think deeply about your true beliefs and take a stand for them.

Vote ‘Yes’

I’m sorry, but to me the only important question is, “How long O Lord, how long. “

I’ve seen posts of several interviews now where the so-called journalist was pushing back on concerns about the military occupation of cities by citing the purported drop in crime in DC. It’d be great if someone could put together a package of statistics on things like restaurant attendance.

@sdrose.bsky.social Are you taking odds on the big question?

I fully agree on mail-in voting, but I have long thought that there might be a deal to be had wrt voter id. The big problem with voter id is not based on the principle but on the exigencies of the implementation. In practice, it turns out to be a method for voter suppression because /1

The transfer of public wealth to private wealth is a choice, not some automatically operating economic law. This being a choice, it is entirely possible to make a different choice, a choice to make the general wealth available to all. Not making that choice means deliberately maintaining injustice.

I fully agree on mail-in voting, but I have long thought that there might be a deal to be had wrt voter id. The big problem with voter id is not based on the principle but on the exigencies of the implementation. In practice, it turns out to be a method for voter suppression because /1

Thank you for writing this. Every word needed to be said. Everything cannot be a distraction. He is fully capable of being truly awful in many directions at once.

Say it again Scott!! But lots louder. The Dead may be grateful but they haven’t heard you yet. I’m all for crushing every impulse Trump has, but when I think about the Fed trying to counteract the effects of tariffs by raising interest rates, my brain wants to run screaming from my skull.

California VOTE YES So we can keep our ability to VOTE

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More than one thing is happening. It's not just a robbery. People who insist the one thing that's most important to them is only important thing are selfish or foolish. He's rigging elections, crashing the economy, putting people in camps, creating health crises, etc.

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

I live in California and yesterday I got two fairly expensive looking flyers in the mail urging me to vote against the new redistricting proposal. Of course I will ignore that advice, but nobody should imagine that this issue will be decided easily. It is going to take all of our efforts.

She would change her mind if a group of Black people gathered all carrying shotguns without permits. She means white people who are willing to attack people of color. The US is waging war on its own people and it is not civil.

Setting aside my own story, even stodgy old John Adams had a woke dream or two: “I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, /1

@katmabu.bsky.social Kat, Here’s an idea for your campaign: Every piece of unsolicited mail should come with a QR code that you can use to quickly opt out of further mailings. You could have a whole section for annoying things that we don’t really have to put up with.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.